She was believed to be one of the lucky ones: a woman who worked in the Twin Towers and was in her office that morning when the planes came. Somehow, she told people, she survived. In the process, she lost friends and saw her life shattered, but she overcame, becoming an advocate for 9/11 families.
A wonderful story of survival if not for the fact that none of it was true. CNN's Brooke Baldwin talked to a filmmaker and author who got to the bottom of the story, which they call "The Woman Who Wasn't There."

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Wowieee

That lady wants your attention and pity. That tiffany co jewelry sent her a ring cuz she claimed that she lost her marriage ring. Wowwieee!. She's trying to make it look like she's a heroes cuz she s spanish with white looks. Now I can't trust nobody.

Just beautiful! Not only this women lied all this time, got the attention, the fame, not to mention the money she must have
pulled with all this on a world scale, now this guy comes up with a book, still making a fortune out of lies!!! Wake up people
and stop feeding these non-sence...

9/11 was an inside job with the U.S. and Israel. 5 Israelis were arrested that day. Google/YouTube 5 Dancing Israelis or the cop, Scott DeCarlo that arrested them. Thousands of Architects & Enginners, Pilots, and Firefighters call B.S. Google/YouTube PENTACON. The cab driver at the Pentagon thought he was off camera and admitted he was driven there and it's all a lie. The third building WTC7 not hit by a plane and collapses out of sympathy. Marvin Bush was tied to the security company for the towers and airports. Unreacted thermite and Iron microspheres were found in the rubble of all three buildings. The Pentagon damage PRIOR to collapse was only a 12ft round hole. Last but not least my First Sergeant was there when it happened and informed our Bn there was no plane, bodies, debris and that they were told what the story was and to keep there mouths shut. Research people please! You're not crazy for seeing the truth and yes this is a conspiracy.

Get off your high horses people. Posting Internet comments proves you are all losers, bigger losers than this woman. At least she helped people instead of grousing about crap online. Try getting lives you turds.

Exactly, who would say they were if they weren't? It wouldn't be thought of to question it and run a background check. It's like those people that tell everyone they have cancer and accept donations...dirt bags!

Just like Mitt Romney says he's fighting for women's rights. Just like George Bush said he didn't cause our current financial crisis. Just like Dick Cheney said he is not dead (5 heart transplants. He's a zombie).

This is just weird. I know people who really did survive, and they're just back living their lives again, no show, no speaking tours, no CNN, just 8-4 in an office just like they were doing on 9/10. Maybe I'm an idiot, in fact, I'm sure I am, but I just don't get why a fake got attention when the real deal just went back to work after finding new jobs... still right there in Manhatten.

Please let me get through this life without doing something so unethical that it will make the news.
I'm well aware all my family will want to strangle me for generations.
That she doesn't seem to "get it" is way out there; she should be studied by shrinks the world over.

This is really sad and totally crazy at the same time. She is an insult to all those who actually lost someone on that day and lives with the pain each and every day. At the same time, this woman really needs some help. To be that much of a liar and to go that far is totally incredible. This was a lesson in attention getting at its lowest level.

Unfortunately, there will always be people to take advantage of a disaster. Opportunist come from every strata. We only have to look at the opportunists that everyday teach us that it will be okay to take advantage. To gain whatever is necessary to get ahead. These teachers are our politicians.

I love how incredibly "racist" every European I've met is. That's the only word there is for it. They're well past "stereotyping", they're just downright racist.

Throwing in "typical American" any time anything ever happens with an American.

Yes. The world gets it, you don't like Americans. Get over yourself. Your raising is 90% of your personality, get over it – American's are typically religious, and very from the dumbest of the dumb, to the cream of the crop.

By the way, I love how ldiots like "liberalNN" imply that CNN is liberal, even though it's run by a multinational corporation whose bored is staffed with billionaires who spend every waking moment postrating for Wall Street/big corporations. They don't spend enough time talking about his Space Fairy (Jayzuss) though so I guess that makes them liberal.

Huh?!?!? What the hell are you smoking??? CNN is pro-liberals, pro-Obama, and anyone who has followed CNN for any time at all can clearly see that...unless, of course, they're blinded by their own bias. Billionaires on the staff have nothing to do with the fact that most of the stories are biased. And your "Space Fairy" comment shows another bias...you better go back to playing video games and ask your mommy for a cookie...leave rational discussions to the adults. Bye bye...now go off and play.

Melodramatic? Idiot, so many people lost their lives that day and we as AMERICANS tend to come together during a tragedy and that's one of the this gs that makes Americans what we are, we as regular people care for each other as well as the rest of the world, yes even yOU , why do you thi k we are everywhere? Because we care, we have sympathy fool. When something awful happens in your country if your not American, and God I hope your not, and you need help who shows up? This woman played on our feelings for those survivors, and to lie like she did is a terrible betrayal for those that were truly there, those families still struggling to survive without their loved ones, you have no insight into what she really did, how wrong it truly was for many. No, not melodrama, its called comoassion, caring, and its called pride. We are full of pride people in this country because we have the freedom and the ability to help one another, and when one such as her does something so reprehensible to the memory of those that paid a horrible price for some lunatics agenda, well that just breaks our hearts. Your an Idiot and your comment is ignorant, and insulting, if your from another country good, because we don't need people like you here, if your American, shame on you, shame on you , kudos though for being stupid.

Thats crazy, that all people had to do was do a tiny bit of background checking to find the truth, but who would do that or ask her when she supposedly went through such a life changing ordeal. Would of been an insult to come out and say " your lying" if she really wasn't.

@Sion Davies I wish people who put comments here would please use proper grammar and spelling. It hurts your credibiity when you use "could of" and you should be using "could've" and when you use "thats" instead of the correct "that's" and when you use "your" when you should be using "you're". It shows you didn't pay enough attention in school or that you're intellectually lazy, which makes me think that now you probably don't pay enough attention to what's going on around you, rendering your opinion less important than others. I'll get off my soap box now but I see so much of this that I just had to say somethig about it.

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